Comments on: A Plant Story: Overview http://www.spiritualwellness.com/blog/can-plants-teach-us/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:45:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Heather http://www.spiritualwellness.com/blog/can-plants-teach-us/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Heather Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:52:18 +0000 http://www.spiritualwellness.com/?p=285#comment-155 This is so great! I am starting a garden for the first time this year, and prayed that God would use it to teach me...I look forward to reading all these posts...and applying the lessons! ~Heather This is so great! I am starting a garden for the first time this year, and prayed that God would use it to teach me…I look forward to reading all these posts…and applying the lessons!

~Heather

]]> By: Angie http://www.spiritualwellness.com/blog/can-plants-teach-us/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Angie Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:51:56 +0000 http://www.spiritualwellness.com/?p=285#comment-154 J-M, I love the imagery of a homestead worn down, but the flowers of the field blossoming. Thank you this beautiful, inspiring imagery. Cysradill, I keep flower beside my computer b/c the scent helps me feel peaceful! J-M, I love the imagery of a homestead worn down, but the flowers of the field blossoming. Thank you this beautiful, inspiring imagery.

Cysradill, I keep flower beside my computer b/c the scent helps me feel peaceful!

]]> By: cysradill http://www.spiritualwellness.com/blog/can-plants-teach-us/comment-page-1/#comment-153 cysradill Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:51:33 +0000 http://www.spiritualwellness.com/?p=285#comment-153 Well said Jan-Michael. Trust and patience bring forth much beauty. Plants and working in the soil can bring much need peace sometimes . And have you every taken the time to real look and see how flowers and leaves are formed and their colours . How they all have different scents. They can take alot of stress away if you just spend a little time with them. God Bless Everyone Cysradill Well said Jan-Michael. Trust and patience bring forth much beauty. Plants and working in the soil can bring much need peace sometimes . And have you every taken the time to real look and see how flowers and leaves are formed and their colours . How they all have different scents. They can take alot of stress away if you just spend a little time with them.
God Bless Everyone
Cysradill

]]> By: Jan-Michael http://www.spiritualwellness.com/blog/can-plants-teach-us/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Jan-Michael Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:51:16 +0000 http://www.spiritualwellness.com/?p=285#comment-152 I have always marvelled at how the daffodils and tulips, hostas and lillies return each year and how, no matter the wind, they just bend and rebound!(Too rigid stalks on some plants and they just snap) When we do the planting, if put in the shade when they crave sunlight, many plants will find a way to get into the light!(They will snake around another plant or a table ledge, whatever, to get to the light and they hang on until they get there, given enough water to keep "growing") Driving on country roads, often I notice the homesteads may be gone but the lilacs and peonies will still be thriving. (They don't need man, God takes care of them). I guess trusting God who looks after the plants, trees and birds, as we read in The Holy Bible is so evident in nature! Some forests spring up from seeds or cones that fell years earlier and then a fire, destoying other trees, generates the heat needed to cause the cones to crack open and renew the forest (Patient for as long as it took and then they sprang up)! So, yes, patience, good roots, a willingness to be flexible. Lots of lessons from nature. But mostly, that God has prepared all to survive and thrive if we lean into HIM and trust that no droughts last forever and there is a time to rest and a time to have a resurgence! A good subject Angie! Jan-Michael I have always marvelled at how the daffodils and tulips, hostas and lillies return each year and how, no matter the wind, they just bend and rebound!(Too rigid stalks on some plants and they just snap)

When we do the planting, if put in the shade when they crave sunlight, many plants will find a way to get into the light!(They will snake around another plant or a table ledge, whatever, to get to the light and they hang on until they get there, given enough water to keep “growing”)

Driving on country roads, often I notice the homesteads may be gone but the lilacs and peonies will still be thriving. (They don’t need man, God takes care of them).

I guess trusting God who looks after the plants, trees and birds, as we read in The Holy Bible is so evident in nature!

Some forests spring up from seeds or cones that fell years earlier and then a fire, destoying other trees, generates the heat needed to cause the cones to crack open and renew the forest (Patient for as long as it took and then they sprang up)!

So, yes, patience, good roots, a willingness to be flexible. Lots of lessons from nature. But mostly, that God has prepared all to survive and thrive if we lean into HIM and trust that no droughts last forever and there is a time to rest and a time to have a resurgence!

A good subject Angie!

Jan-Michael

]]> By: Rose http://www.spiritualwellness.com/blog/can-plants-teach-us/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Rose Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:50:53 +0000 http://www.spiritualwellness.com/?p=285#comment-151 Never thought that plants can teach me something. So... we need a solid fundament (education) with enough space to grow and to fulfill our needs. Blessings Rose Never thought that plants can teach me something. So… we need a solid fundament (education) with enough space to grow and to fulfill our needs. Blessings Rose

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